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All of Mr Pat Sheehan’s imported questions, contributions and motions in this mandate, newest first, including those assessed as not flagged, uncertain or not yet analysed.
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Assessment details for Debate contribution: Education Inspections Bill: Second Stage Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: Education Inspections Bill: Second Stage
You have made that point on quite a number of occasions today. I am just wondering why you continue to misrepresent our position by saying that we are opposed to inspections when we have not once said that. Can you explain why you keep saying that we are?
Assessment details for Debate contribution: Education Inspections Bill: Second Stage Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: Education Inspections Bill: Second Stage
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Assessment details for Debate contribution: Education Inspections Bill: Second Stage Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: Education Inspections Bill: Second Stage
I thank the Member for giving way. One thing that has become clear during the debate is that we do not know what the sanction will be. If we do not know what the sanction will be, how can we amend it? That does not make any sense.
Assessment details for Debate contribution: Education Inspections Bill: Second Stage Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: Education Inspections Bill: Second Stage
Yes.
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Assessment details for Debate contribution: Education Inspections Bill: Second Stage Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: Education Inspections Bill: Second Stage
One of the reasons, Daniel, is that, if we were to have blocked the Bill at the Executive, the SDLP would be saying tomorrow morning "This place is dysfunctional. You're blocking legislation. Sinn Féin is blocking legislation, and the DUP is blocking legislation". No, we are not blocking legislation. Rather, we are…
Assessment details for Debate contribution: Education Inspections Bill: Second Stage Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: Education Inspections Bill: Second Stage
Let me finish this point, and I will then give way to you. The Education Committee will be very busy between now and the end of the mandate. We know that the Minister has other legislation coming through, that the Committee has its own Bill to introduce and that there are a number of private Members' Bills for the…
Assessment details for Debate contribution: Education Inspections Bill: Second Stage Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: Education Inspections Bill: Second Stage
Under other circumstances, I might agree with the Chair of the Committee. We have this dog's dinner of a clause in clause 3, however. We do not think that it can be amended and still have the same scope. We are not sure that, even if we could amend the clause, the amendment would be accepted by the Speaker.
Assessment details for Debate contribution: Education Inspections Bill: Second Stage Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: Education Inspections Bill: Second Stage
First, we will vote down the Bill today because we do not think that there is a lot of room to change it. The main feature of the Bill is that, if teachers obstruct inspections, there will be a sanction. We do not know what that sanction will be. The Minister cannot even tell us what that sanction will be. Previously,…
Assessment details for Debate contribution: Education Inspections Bill: Second Stage Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: Education Inspections Bill: Second Stage
— they can let it pass. Go ahead, Danny.
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Assessment details for Debate contribution: Education Inspections Bill: Second Stage Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: Education Inspections Bill: Second Stage
Fair enough, a Leas-Cheann Comhairle. I will make a final point about legislation passing through the Assembly: the Minister has to remember that there is no longer a single-party unionist regime through which he can push through legislation in a ramstam way. This is now a democratic Chamber, and Members will have…
Assessment details for Debate contribution: Education Inspections Bill: Second Stage Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: Education Inspections Bill: Second Stage
At the minute, Jonny, I am speaking for Sinn Féin. You said that legislation is a lengthy process. It is funny that the Education Minister did not think that when his School Uniforms Bill was going through the Committee; he wanted that process to be condensed. To my shame, we acquiesced to that request because we were…
Assessment details for Debate contribution: Education Inspections Bill: Second Stage Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: Education Inspections Bill: Second Stage
The Executive should allow the 'good jobs' Bill to come to the Floor of the Assembly. It has been blocked in the Executive for long enough by the DUP. That is not just the case with the 'good jobs' Bill; any amount of pieces of legislation are being blocked. It is probably true that most of them are not Sinn Féin…
Assessment details for Debate contribution: Education Inspections Bill: Second Stage Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: Education Inspections Bill: Second Stage
Ordinarily, if I heard a DUP Member, especially a Minister, quoting Nelson Mandela, one of the great leaders, human beings and political ex-prisoners of the 20th and 21st centuries, I would look on it as a sign of progress. However, in quoting Madiba, the Minister's action was so cynical as to undermine whatever…
Assessment details for Debate contribution: Education Inspections Bill: Second Stage Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: Education Inspections Bill: Second Stage
The latest data that I have heard about inspections is that schools are inspected, on average, every eight to 10 years.
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Assessment details for Debate contribution: Education Inspections Bill: Second Stage Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: Education Inspections Bill: Second Stage
To ask the Minister of Education, pursuant to AQW 45524/22-27, to detail the proposed timeframe for establishing the working group tasked with scoping enhanced administrative support roles in schools.
Assessment details for Written question AQW 47568/22-27 Official Assembly record for Written question AQW 47568/22-27
To ask the Minister of Education, pursuant to AQW 45524/22-27, whether any pilot schools have been identified for the phased introduction of enhanced administrative support roles.
Assessment details for Written question AQW 47567/22-27 Official Assembly record for Written question AQW 47567/22-27
To ask the Minister of Education, pursuant to AQW 45524/22-27, whether any estimate has been made of the potential staffing costs associated with enhanced administrative support roles in schools.
Assessment details for Written question AQW 47566/22-27 Official Assembly record for Written question AQW 47566/22-27
To ask the Minister of Education, pursuant to AQW 45523/22-27, whether his Department has considered introducing a maximum recommended weekly working time for teachers.
Assessment details for Written question AQW 47565/22-27 Official Assembly record for Written question AQW 47565/22-27
To ask the Minister of Education, pursuant to AQW 45523/22-27, whether the protocols being developed by the Teachers’ Negotiating Committee will place any obligations on (i) employing authorities; or (ii) Boards of Governors, to reduce excessive workload where identified.
Assessment details for Written question AQW 47564/22-27 Official Assembly record for Written question AQW 47564/22-27
To ask the Minister of Education, pursuant to AQW 45523/22-27, to detail any interventions or enforcement mechanisms that will be available where a teacher is identified as working excessive hours on a sustained basis.
Assessment details for Written question AQW 47453/22-27 Official Assembly record for Written question AQW 47453/22-27
To ask the Minister of Education, pursuant to AQW 45523/22-27, whether his Department intends to establish a formal mechanism through which teachers can report sustained excessive workload exceeding 40 hours per week.
Assessment details for Written question AQW 47452/22-27 Official Assembly record for Written question AQW 47452/22-27
To ask the Minister of Education, pursuant to AQW 45390/22-27, whether schools will be required to collect and report workload data from teachers as part of the implementation of the Teacher Workload Action Plan.
Assessment details for Written question AQW 47451/22-27 Official Assembly record for Written question AQW 47451/22-27
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